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    "content": "for the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and the Ministry of Interior and National Coordination, Governors, Senators, Members of Parliament from Turkana County and senior representatives from Tullow Oil. The Government is committed to delivering a safe and secure operating environment for Tullow operations in the country. The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Petroleum will continue to hold regular meetings with Turkana leaders and senior Tullow officers to resolve all emerging issues amicably. In addition, leaders of Turkana County have held meetings in the county to sensitize the public on the need to allow operations of Tullow Oil Company to resume, which they resumed on 6th November, 2013. Also, Turkana leaders have agreed to support Tullow Oil Company to resume operations. Regarding how Tullow Oil Company has taken care of the needs of the local Turkana in their exploitation of the oil resource, Tullow takes its relationship with local communities as key stakeholders in tackling all operations in Turkana. Tullow Oil has been exploring oil in Turkana since 2011 and currently employs over 1,000 people from the Turkana area. Tullow has informed us that they have spent Kshs80 million on Turkana suppliers since the start of 2013. As the oil industry matures in Turkana, more opportunities will be afforded to specifically local Turkana companies for them to benefit from increased petroleum operations. Regarding what the Government is doing to scale up involvement of locals in this grand project beyond the universally accepted practice of simple casual jobs, being given opportunity of non-skilled task workers to being given simple small-scale business and contracts, at this early stage, the Government is challenging the oil sector to provide guidance and support for communities to enable them to build capacity in the supply chain. Tullow Oil has informed us that they are committed to developing local capacity to achieve oil and gas standards regarding provisions of goods and services to oil operations. The Government will support this initiative through insisting that oil companies increase local content in their operations and also be transparent in tender awards and employment. Tullow Oil has offered scholarship opportunities to Kenyan nationals including four Turkana local students to pursue post-graduate studies in highly specialized areas related to the upstream oil industry in top overseas universities through its group scholarship scheme. Regarding what guarantee the Government is giving on the safety of non-Turkana employees from elsewhere who are reportedly being evacuated, provision of a safe and secure working environment is critical for all employees and sub-contractors working on behalf of Tullow Oil. During the engagement between all stakeholders, all parties made commitments regarding safety to all employees. The Cabinet Secretary in charge of internal security has agreed to enhance security in Turkana which will be supported by enhanced engagement with the community, increase in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding and transparency regarding opportunities in oil operations in Turkana."
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